Libya's Gaddafi calls for Holy War against Switzerland

[Syt]

BBC: Libya's Gaddafi urges 'holy war' against Switzerland

Libya's Muammar Gaddafi has called for a jihad, or holy war, against Switzerland, as an ongoing diplomatic row between the two nations heats up.

He criticised a recent Swiss vote against the building of minarets and said Muslims must boycott the country.

There have been tensions between the nations since 2008, when one of Mr Gaddafi's sons was arrested in Geneva, accused of assaulting two servants.

A Swiss foreign ministry spokesman declined to comment on the jihad call.

The Libyan leader made his comments while speaking at a meeting to mark the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad.

"Let us wage jihad against Switzerland, Zionism and foreign aggression," he said.

"Any Muslim in any part of the world who works with Switzerland is an apostate, is against Muhammad, God and the Koran."

In a referendum last November, 57.5% of Swiss voters approved a constitutional ban on the building of minarets. An appeal against the ban has been submitted to the European Court of Human Rights.

Charges dropped

Earlier this month, Libya stopped issuing visas to citizens from many European nations, prompting condemnation from the European Commission.
Hannibal Gaddafi (2005)
Hannibal Gaddafi's arrest in 2008 sparked the diplomatic spat

Libya's move came after Switzerland allegedly blacklisted 188 high-ranking Libyans, denying them entry permits. The Swiss ban is said to include Mr Gaddafi and his family.

The row began after the arrest of Mr Gaddafi's son Hannibal and his wife, Aline Skaf, in Geneva in July 2008.

They were accused of assaulting two servants while staying at a luxury hotel in the Swiss city, though the charges were later dropped.

Libya retaliated by cancelling oil supplies, withdrawing billions of dollars from Swiss banks, refusing visas to Swiss citizens and recalling some of its diplomats.

In the same month that the Gaddafis were arrested, Libyan authorities detained two Swiss businessmen, in what analysts believe was a retaliatory move.

One was finally allowed to leave the country earlier this week but the second was transferred to jail, where he faces a four-month term on immigration offences.

[Scipio]

Wow.  I bet the Swiss are glad that they caved on that embassy thing.  Sucks to be neutral when you're not in the stealing money from helpless Jews business anymore.

[Martinus]

LOL Gaddafi, He Whose Name is Spelled The Thousand Ways.

[Richard Hakluyt]

What was Hannibal doing in the Alps anyway  ?

[Martinus]

I think it's precious that he also included Zionism in his Jihad call.

Though, I guess, you could argue that Switzerland is a country sitting on a pile of Jewish gold...

[DisturbedPervert]

He criticised a recent Swiss vote against the building of minarets and said Muslims must boycott the country.

Can muslims please boycott the United States too?

[Queequeg]

He criticised a recent Swiss vote against the building of minarets and said Muslims must boycott the country.

Can muslims please boycott the United States too?

FUCK YOU.  I have enough problems trying to find good Falafel as it is. 

[Sheilbh]

I once worked at a bar frequented by one of Gaddafi's nephews, he used to tip very well.  One night he got into a fight with a Bristol Rovers football player.  I was going to get a bouncer but someone ran quicker so I just watched.  An orange woman screamed 'GADDAFI NOOOOO!' (Where have you been for the last forty years, I thought).  Then someone threw a glass at the orange woman and she shut up.  Gaddafi's shirt was ripped open and his multi-diamond watch broken off his wrist.  The bouncer kicked him out and I gave him his watch back when he next came in.  After the fight he never tipped again.

[Sheilbh]

The article forgets that in Gaddafi's UNGA tour-de-force performance he also announced a Libyan sponsored resolution calling for the abolition of Switzerland. 

I love that Switzerland is first on the list of things to Jihad beating out traditional favourites Zionism and 'foreign aggression'

[citizen k]

I've been calling for jihad against Switzerland ever since Hamilcar said victims of tornados, "had it coming."

[jimmy olsen]

Pffttt...as if Lybia could possibly defeat the Swiss and their revolutionary new tanks.

[garbon]

not funny

[Scipio]

He criticised a recent Swiss vote against the building of minarets and said Muslims must boycott the country.

Can muslims please boycott the United States too?

FUCK YOU.  I have enough problems trying to find good Falafel as it is.

That's because there's no such thing as good falafel.

[Martinus]

I've been calling for jihad against Switzerland ever since Hamilcar said victims of tornados, "had it coming."

Well, he was right. People who choose to live in natural-disaster-prone areas, especially when they do not buy an insurance policy, do not deserve to be helped with money from the taxes of people who either do not take the risk or hedged that risk by buying a policy. That kind of system, where benefits of risk taking are consumed by a risk taker - e.g. in the form of cheaper property in hurricane-infested area - but costs of risk taking are being socialized and shared by all players (like aid to people who did not buy a policy and now are homeless) is both immoral and provides wrong incentives. It is no different than bailout of risk-taking banks by the tax payer - only people get more teary eyed about idiots who build their house in a hurricane country and then get it blown to pieces, than Wall Street fat cats.

[citizen k]

I've been calling for jihad against Switzerland ever since Hamilcar said victims of tornados, "had it coming."

Well, he was right. People who choose to live in natural-disaster-prone areas, especially when they do not buy an insurance policy, do not deserve to be helped with money from the taxes of people who either do not take the risk or hedged that risk by buying a policy. That kind of system, where benefits of risk taking are consumed by a risk taker - e.g. in the form of cheaper property in hurricane-infested area - but costs of risk taking are being socialized and shared by all players (like aid to people who did not buy a policy and now are homeless) is both immoral and provides wrong incentives. It is no different than bailout of risk-taking banks by the tax payer - only people get more teary eyed about idiots who build their house in a hurricane country and then get it blown to pieces, than Wall Street fat cats.

And for the people with homeowner's insurance? Which is just about all homeowners.